Misleading Quotes
129 Misleading quotes by 112 unique authors
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art…
— Walker Evans
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I know that plenty of folks have issues with Social Security, but I'd urge them to confront it on its own terms. Calling it a…
— Mitchell Zuckoff
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse…
— John F. Kerry
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I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to…
— Leo Burnett
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In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent…
— Frank Church
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People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term…
— Brandon Stanton
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In principle, there’s nothing wrong with the concept of an infographic. What concerns me is the types of things that people are doing with them.…
— Matt Cutts
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Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
— Brian Eno
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But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
— Ernest Holmes
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I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say.
— Davy Jones
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
— John Maynard Keynes
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
— Thomas Sowell
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
— Herbert Spencer
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It is a fearful mistake for us to neglect the study of the Bible to investigate theories that are misleading, diverting minds from the words…
— Ellen G. White
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One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to…
— Francis Collins
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Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the…
— Evgeny Morozov
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It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the…
— George Harrison
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You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the…
— Emily Giffin
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Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have…
— Neil Postman
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false…
— Neil Postman
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Jedi do not fight for peace. That's only a slogan, and is as misleading as slogans always are. Jedi fight for civilization, because only civilization…
— Matthew Woodring Stover
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Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so…
— Richard Paul Evans
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The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
— Milan Kundera
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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
— Marisha Pessl
Who Wrote These Misleading Quotes
112 authors contributed a total of 129 Misleading Quotes, led by these top contributors: